Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, not-exactly minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Great recipe for Not-exactly Minestrone Soup. Another soup (vaguely inspired by the Italian staple) using up vegetables before they "go off" and other ingredients from the larder. If I had any celery, that'd be in too. Basically, just use up any vegetables to hand.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook not-exactly minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
- Prepare 1 tbsp Oil
- Get 1 onion, chopped
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Get 1 leek, sliced
- Prepare 3 carrots, diced
- Take 1 pepper, deseeded and diced
- Get 100 g chestnut mushrooms, chopped
- Make ready A few cherry tomatoes, halved
- Get 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
- Take 2 litres vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine
- Take Handful dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces
- Make ready 400 g tin cannelloni beans, drained
- Take 1⁄4 cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced
- Prepare 1 tsp each dried oregano and thyme
- Get 1⁄2 tsp dried basil
- Make ready Grated Parmesan cheese
Stir in the green beans, tomato sauce, kidney beans, Italian seasoning and chicken stock. I am not exactly a minestrone fan and I prefer tomato soup to minestrone, which has a milder tomato taste. But minestrone seems to be a healthier choice as compare to tomato soup (i can be wrong about that). It has a lot of vegetable in it and I find it "flexible" in a way… The pasta.
Steps to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
- Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking.
- Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes.
- Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir.
- Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes.
- Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes.
- Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.
But minestrone seems to be a healthier choice as compare to tomato soup (i can be wrong about that). It has a lot of vegetable in it and I find it "flexible" in a way… The pasta. You can use any pasta in a soup like this or even rice. This is actually the macaroni I saved from the box of macaroni and cheese that I sacrificed for my Easy Cheesy Popcorn (I just used the cheese packet). Unlike minestrone, fish and meat are often used and there are prominent regional specialities.
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